上海2013年11月25日電 /美通社/ -- 巨人網(wǎng)絡(luò)集團(tuán)有限公司（紐交所交易代碼：GA）（以下稱“巨人”或“公司”），是中國(guó)領(lǐng)先的網(wǎng)絡(luò)游戲開發(fā)商和運(yùn)營(yíng)商之一。巨人今天宣布其董事會(huì)（以下稱“董事會(huì)”）收到來自公司主席史玉柱先生（及其某些關(guān)聯(lián)公司），以及霸菱亞洲投資（Baring Private Equity Asia）的一個(gè)附屬公司所組成的財(cái)團(tuán)（以下一并稱為“財(cái)團(tuán)”）于2013年11月25日發(fā)起的不具約束力的初步私有化要約。根據(jù)該要約書，財(cái)團(tuán)計(jì)劃以每股普通股或每股美國(guó)存托股（“存托股”，公司每一股存托股代表一股普通股）11.75美元現(xiàn)金的價(jià)格收購(gòu)公司所有發(fā)行在外的普通股（包括公司存托股所代表的普通股）。
截至2013年11月25日，該財(cái)團(tuán)成員總計(jì)實(shí)益擁有公司總股本的約47.2%。
該要約書中稱，該要約僅為初步意向，交易的最終條款還將取決于談判及簽署后的交易文件。
董事會(huì)（不包括史玉柱先生）正在考量并評(píng)估該財(cái)團(tuán)的要約。公司預(yù)計(jì)董事會(huì)將采取多種程序和方式來充分合理地評(píng)估要約同時(shí)保障與財(cái)團(tuán)無關(guān)聯(lián)的公司股東的利益，包括由與財(cái)團(tuán)沒有關(guān)聯(lián)且非公司管理層的獨(dú)立董事成立特別委員會(huì)來評(píng)估要約，并在適當(dāng)?shù)那闆r下就此進(jìn)行談判，同時(shí)也考慮公司的其他戰(zhàn)略選擇。公司提請(qǐng)其股東及其他考慮交易公司股票的實(shí)體或個(gè)人注意：董事會(huì)剛收到該項(xiàng)要約，目前尚未就公司對(duì)要約的回應(yīng)作出任何決定。目前無法保證該財(cái)團(tuán)或其他實(shí)體是否會(huì)給出最終要約，或就該擬議中的交易簽署任何最終協(xié)議，或該擬議中的交易或任何其他交易會(huì)被批準(zhǔn)完成。
根據(jù)該要約書，美國(guó)威爾遜律師事務(wù)所是史玉柱先生和財(cái)團(tuán)的美國(guó)法律顧問、威嘉國(guó)際律師事務(wù)所是霸菱亞洲投資的美國(guó)法律顧問、而美國(guó)美邁斯律師事務(wù)所是公司的美國(guó)法律顧問。
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